There were titmice at breakfast. After that I got too busy to pay attention. After lunch, I went outside. A hawk apparently either gave up or else caught something too small to see. It dropped out of the trees a couple of backyards away and the flew off upstream. Since it was behind vegetation, I couldn't see what it was after or whether the prey escaped. But even after it flew away, there still wasn't much in the way of birds. I heard a kingfisher and saw mallards, geese, and an egret.
Arthropods were easier to spot. I saw a lot of moths and butterflies but only one question mark let me get a photo. Several spider webs caught the sunlight. Unfortunately for the hardworking spiders, the webs also caught leaves and fluff and unrecognizable stuff. 
Yellow jackets prowled in search of food. I rescued a hornet. Black ground beetles and other insects were still falling into the water and some found rafts to delay the inevitable. I was thinking about testing the water myself but a breeze began to diminish the warmth and the shadows quickly moved in. A new weeping conk appeared under the oak. Unlike mushrooms, it didn't seem to have any need of rain. Lots of fluff blew off the saltbush and went everywhere. I picked milkweed seeds and added to the flying fluff.
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